Week 6 is an opportunity to reflect upon online learning experiences, review and develop inventories of good practice, and evaluate the relationship between theory and practice.

This week is about integrating and consolidating your learning so far. The particular aim of this week's activities is to consider good practice in online tutoring.The work we will do this week aims to give you opportunities to:

clarify the e-moderating role

consider what makes for good practice in online learning, by creating a personally meaningful inventory for your own good practice

reflect on your learning over the last few weeks, and share others' reflections

Start by looking at the welcome video and the week overview.

Wrap up webinar

3pm BST Friday 2 May -- recording now available.

We'll be reflecting on how the course has gone, and what we've all learnt and discovered along the way. And then we'll say goodbye.

Participant slides from the shared Google presentation, with tutor reflections and plans for #tooc15. (Excuse any formatting weirdnesses, which are the result of exporting and importing different file types.)

Activities

Task 1: Tweet your ideas about what represents good practice in online learning. (No more than 30 minutes)

While you are reviewing exemplar inventories of good practice, watching the video, or reading, post your reflections to twitter (or alternatively if you are blogging about the course post the link to your blog to Twitter). Use the course hashtag #tooc14.

Early in the week each person should compile their own brief inventory of good practice in online tutoring, drawing on your own practice, research and experience and the four inventories that have been presented here -- Chickering & Gamson's 7 Principles, Salmon's 5 Stages, Macdonald's 3 elearner capacities, and Palloff and Pratt's 6 excellent online tutor characteristics. Post your own individual inventory to thisforum.

In the forum explain your rationale for your inventory. What features of online tutoring does it emphasise? What features does it play down? How might your inventory be specific to your present professional role? How might it be generalisable across roles and disciplines?

We suggest that you follow two guidelines:

Be brave: Post your ideas as early as possible, Preferably by Tuesday of Week 6.

Be brief: Try for no more than 30 lines. Don't try to be too polished: just a few bullet points will be fine.

Then, in the forum, respond to at least one other person's inventory as a "critical friend": as you have evaluated the strengths and omissions of your own inventory, consider the inventories of other people; what do you consider to be the particular strengths of their inventories?

This week we'd like you to reflect on your own experience of learning online. Using your own inventory of good practice, make notes for yourself evaluating your experience of #tooc14. Start by returning to your first posting(s) on this course - where you started to talk about your experiences of and expectations of online learning. How have your ideas changed? In what ways have your perceptions changed about the online moderator's role? How does this course stand up to your own evaluation criteria?

In the Google presentation, create a slide with your name on it, and share your reflections, and use the comment facility for discussion. (The tutors will also be using this to reflect.)

Then come to the webinar at 3pm BST on Friday 2 May to discuss our collective reflections and learning from the course, and to say goodbye.

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Teaching OnlineOpen Courseis an open online course which runs from 10 March - 4 May 2014, (with a two week break for Easter). It is free to participate, but for a fee of £425 this course may be taken for 10 M-level credits.

This is an intensive introduction to supporting student learning in online environments, and you will be supported through scheduled activities by selected key readings, specially developed course resources, skilled online tutors and guest experts.